Movisi are putting Peter Marigold’s clever niche shelving solution into production. Triangular ‘blocks’ of shelving which use gravity (and a series of ridges along their sides) to lock into place, bridging any gap without fixings.

Jan Chipchase is always, always right. This time though, he’s also a little scary. Basically, he posits that Google know what your collective research is about, so are equipped to predict your company’s next moves.

A buisness/technology overview of the web phenomenon that is MySpace. Interesting reading, whatever you personally think of the damned site.

Jawad Shuaib over at Shuzak.com talks about social networking websites and what makes one a success whilst another falls flat. Interesting, coming from somebody who runs such a site/business himself.

A squid-related blog that’ updated more often than most, from the guys over at Laughing Squid (a San Francisco arts & media organisation).

Three years they tried for. Three fruitless, thankless years. Here, Clive Thompson takes the story as a jumping-off point to ponder the influence of The Onion on the craft of ‘real’ newspaper headline-writing.

The BBC reporting on Lothian & Borders Police. They’re investigating the idea of using CCTV cameras to watch over their GATSO speed cameras in an attempt to reduce vandalism (of the cameras).

Generative art, randomly mixing up corporate slogans and placing them over found images from Flickr with tags which link to them semantically. Thanks to the brain’s habit of pattern recognition, these seem to uncannily make a lot of sense.

Brilliant, simple, overarching design principles for websites that work. Usability gold.

Wikileaks is an uncensorable version of Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. The first question that springs to mind is “why?”, but then answers do manage to follow.

Reading matter! Lots of it!

Is the mobile telephony market ready for open-source? I can’t think of a market more deliberately closed than the cellphone one.

Spiegel Online with a nice report on the Chinese village of Dafen, where sixty percent of the world’s cheap oil paintings are produced.

Every now and again, I Google “Sean+Tejaratchi”, just to see what he’s up to. Being interviewed by PingMag over in Japan, in this instance.

There are so many cool web application sites these days that I always end up feeling late to the party. Remember the Milk looks like the be-all and end-all of reminder services.

A fantastic blog about newspaper design, one of the last truly specialised graphic design disciplines. Written by one of the lead designers at The Oregonian.

Run by the Saatchi Gallery, this is social networking crossed with online exhibition spaces: MySpace for visual artists, if you like.

… and Stuart (Student Art) is the same thing for art students. Interesting development, keeping them separate from the main network.

“This document presumptuously purports to explain how to do research.” It’s good, too.